Dell RecoverPoint vs Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] comparison

"It is amazing because it is very easy to test with many alternative bookmarks."

"Customer Service: Very good, EMC did support us to implement it well and gave useful instructions and lessons to help to maintain it well."

"It has improved RTO and RPO."

"I would rate the overall solution a 9.9 out of 10."

"It can replicate data from a distant location and it can scan it as well, with continuous data replication and almost no data loss."

"I would rate its stability almost a nine out of ten."

"The solution is very stable. Once it's installed, many customers forget they even have it."

"It has improved RTO and RPO."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"In all the companies in which I have used the product the ease of Disaster Recovery was implemented in such a manner that the risk of a site disaster was mitigated in an efficient way, and it made the migrations of complete data centers to other new data centers at other locations a piece of cake."

"Customer Service: Very good. Technical Support: Very good."

"Customer service for this product was top notch."

"The feature of taking snapshots from the replicated volumes has allowed us to use them for DR testing to validate the application consistent point of recovery."

"Customer Service: Top notch. Technical Support: Excellent."

"The SRDF solution has improved our disaster recovery RPO to near zero or less than 15 minutes with RTO getting drastically reduced."

"RecoverPoint's WAN optimization could be improved."

"Dell RecoverPoint is affordable for enterprises but not for mid-size organizations due to the required network investment for bandwidth across sites."

"The new Gen5 appliances have adopted the Unisphere management interface and it is written for Adobe Flash, which in my experience, is very slow and makes administration cumbersome at times."

"The product should provide integration with new products."

"When it comes to storage and backup, that is where scalability problems have affected us."

"Other hypervisors should be integrated with this system. Other hypervisors should be able to get the benefits of this solution."

"RecoverPoint is designed to integrate seamlessly with Dell EMC storage. If you don't have Dell EMC storage, you can't use it with other brands like IBM or HP."

"The initial setup is complex."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation. For every newly provisioned volume, creating replication relationships between production and DR site, creating snapshots for third copy at DR site, and configuring them in appropriate replication groups and device groups means that there are lot of steps involved and a lot of room for error. There has to be a lot of checks and balances which need to be incorporated to make sure that the solution is set up correctly."

"As of late I have seen the replication drop but this was not due to the SRDF, it was due to the high rate of IO changes on the OS side."

"In general, it’s very stable although some time SRDF don’t behave as expected specially if the link is not stable or saturated."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"SRDF compared with EMC Recover Point has less capabilities, for ex. CDP (local or remote) is missing, only EMC assets compatibility, as a TCO is more expensive than implementing IBM SVC or EMC VPLEX virtualization and replication (more supported assets)."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation."

"Our ROI was minimal, because we use it for a cold, disaster recovery method."

"It is considered quite costly."

"Support is an additional subscription."

"The product is fairly priced."

"The price is moderate."

"While I recommend Dell EMC, it depends on your specific use case. Licensing is perpetual, meaning you buy it once."

"RecoverPoint came free as an add-on to the PowerProtect Data Manager backup software from Dell EMC."